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Guardian's 6th Annual Workplace Benefits Study Finds Student Loan Debt Growth Fastest Among Boomers

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04/17/2019

... loans and credit cards to become the largest source of personal debt, aside from mortgages. Millennials bear the ... contained to the younger generation. According to a new white paper from The Guardian Life...

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Ford and Markle Foundations Support National Alliance To Increase College Graduation Rates

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04/19/2018

... presidents and provosts representing all 11 universities, as well as major funders, in attendance, the University Innovation Alliance outlined its mission of increasing the number of...

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Ford Foundation to Support Ongoing Work of Generation Indigenous Response Fund

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02/21/2019

Ford Foundation to Support Ongoing Work of Generation Indigenous Response Fund Native Americans in ... The Generation Indigenous Initiative was launched by President Obama after listening to Native youth on the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... Nathan Cummings Foundation A report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy has shed more light on what led to the ... Cummings Foundation that Simon Greer leaving his post as CEO. The Chronicle reports that Greer,...

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Heintz Named To NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 List

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08/01/2014

... Power & Influence Top 50 List Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has been named as one of this year's Nonprofit Times Power & Influence...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Lead Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College

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10/28/2014

... Coalition to Get Low-Income Students Through College As data has made clear how many top-performing students from ... and middle-class families fall through the cracks, a range of institutions have set out to...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... Cities to Build Greater Resilience Judith Rodin’s new book, The Resilience Dividend, begins with her surveying ... October 2012. “There were the low-lying neighbourhoods of Staten Island exposed to sea rise,...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

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06/11/2015

... Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced a $10 million gift from the ... The research will focus on the changes tumors undergo as they become resistant to drugs—the...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty Art of Change Fellow and ... still so much hunger and homelessness in the world?” As a Constitutional Court justice in post-apartheid...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

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08/19/2015

... Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts The University of Oklahoma is the recipient of a $1 million grant from the ... staff in the fields of classics and letters,” said OU President...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

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09/24/2015

... the UN General Assembly on September 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of new Russian troops and military equipment to Syria. ... of a “Moscow Track” to...

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Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality

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11/09/2015

... Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality Under a new strategy announced today, the Ford Foundation will double ... organizations. At the same time, it will cut its support of several initiatives,...

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The Nation Details Eric Holder’s Appearance at Ford Foundation

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12/14/2015

... at a time when civil-rights issues were at the forefront of the public consciousness, from a new assault on voting rights to the Black Lives Matter ... the opportunity to interview him at the Ford Foundation...

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

Ms. Foundation CEO puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls Teresa Younger has been renewing the conversation about feminism since becoming president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women 18...

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

... to the Newman's Own Advisory Board. Harrison is currently President of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT, where ... quality, finances, and fundraising have all improved...

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Announcing the 2017 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/21/2017

... The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships. The ... are transforming...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... Learning to Remain Competitive The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today released the final report and ... at an important moment in our history," American Academy President Jonathan Fanton said...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders is working to...

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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, including the creation of an advisory commission to help guide reconstruction ... founder and president of a local think tank, Center for a New...

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